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The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a…
The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a late pamphlet entitled An argumentative and practical discourse of infant-baptism, published by Mr. William Burkit, rector of Mildin in Suffolk : wherein all his arguments for pedo-baptism are refuted and the necessity of immersion, i.e. dipping, is evidenced, and the people falsely called Anabaptists are cleared from those unjust reproaches and calumnies cast upon them : together with a reply to the Athenian gazette added to their 5th volume about infant-baptism : with some remarks upon Mr. John Flavel's last book in answer to Mr. Philip Cary / by Benjamin Keach.The rector rectified and corrected, or, Infant-baptism unlawful being a sober answer to a late pamphlet entituled An argumentative and practical discourse of infant-baptism, published by Mr. William Burkit, rector of Mildin in Suffolk : wherein all his arguments for pedo-baptism are refuted and the necessity of immersion, i.e. dipping, is evidenced, and the people falsly called Anabaptists are cleared from those unjust reproaches and calumnies cast upon them : together with a reply to the Athenian gazette added to their 5th volume about infant-baptism : with some remarks upon Mr. John Flavel's last book in answer to Mr. Philip Cary / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by John Harris, 1692
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THE Rector Rectified, and Corrected: OR, Infant-Baptism Unlawful. › Chapter 9
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You say, Pag. 52. We read of divers Washings under the Law, in the Original it is divers Baptisms: Now, say you, what were those Washings but Sprinklings, no Persons were dipped in Blood, &c.
You say, Pag. 52. We read of divers Washings under the Law, in the Original it is divers Baptisms: Now, say you, what were those Washings but Sprinklings, no Persons were dipp'd in Blood, &c.
Answ. We deny those Washings which are called Baptisms, were either sprinkling or pouring of Water on them, but total dipping of their whole Body;1 and so the Reverend Mr. Ainsworth, (a Man very learned in all Jewish Rites and Ceremonies) positively affirms on Levit. 11.31. these are his words, viz. All that are unclean, whether Men or Vessels, are not cleansed but by dipping, or baptizing in Water; and wheresoever the Law speaketh of washing a Man's Flesh,2 or washing of Clothes for Uncleanness, it is not but by dipping the whole Body therein: And whether they be Men or Vessels, there may not be any thing between them and the Water to keep them asunder, as Clay, Pitch, or the like, that cleaveth to the Body or Vessel;3 if there be, then they are (saith he) unclean, and their washing profiteth them not. Maim. in Mikvaoth.
Answ. We deny those Washings which are called Baptisms, were either sprinkling or pouring of Water on them, but total dipping of their whole Body;1 and so the Reverend Mr. Ainsworth, (a Man very learned in all Jewish Rites and Ceremonies) positively affirms on